Chapter one questions-Until I Find You

 Until I Find You, John Irving Opening quote: Do you think this is true? Why? Do you feel it was a good one considering the content so far? I do think it is true to an extent. We bend and reshape our memories as we talk about them. In a way they do become what we want them to be or how we see them rather than what truly happened. ...We'll see.
1)Why do you believe Jack remembers most vividly the moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand?
Well, I would say that Jack's mother is the first (and arguably most important) woman in his life. Women are bound to play be a large role of this novel, and I think that his vivid memory of reaching out for his mother's hand represents him trying to ground himself and make sense of life through the touch of a woman.
2)Any thoughts on "blowing souls" in the graveyard of the church?
I am no newcomer to the novels of John Irving. That being said I have picked up on reoccurring themes he uses. Death is certainly one of those themes. The fact that not halfway through the first chapter the idea of souls blowing in a graveyard is brought up is not at all surprising. Only being a chapter in, my current reading of this is that the souls of the dead who do not have a resting place that just blow around are sort of always looking for something, for a home. In the same way, Jack and his mother both seem to be "blowing souls" as they search for Jack's father.  
3)"The tattoo-crazy organist had already stolen her heart."
 That sentence packs a huge punch in regards to explainging who Alice is. She is a woman whose heart was stolen. Irving doesn't throw language and detail around, typically. This fact will not be trivial. Moving along, this novel, much like Garp and Hotel New Hampshire,  opens with a large focus on the parentage of of the story's protagonist.  In a way, Garp is just as much about Jenny Fields as it is about T.S. Garp himself. Hotel New Hampshire is the story of the Berry family told from John's perspective, but it is just as much or more Win Berry's story as it is anyone's. Just from the set up of the first chapter, it seems that this story belongs to Alice just as well as it belongs to Jack.
‎4)How do you feel about the fact that Jack's father, William, has more repercussions for his getting Alice pregnant than Alice for getting pregnant? Considering the time period, I found this interesting. My thoughts were that it had something to do with the "sensitive sensibilites" women of the time were believed to have.
I don't know that he really had MORE repercussions.  His parents and his church certainly didn't take to it well but emotionally and financially, the repercussions upon Alice were many and great. But the fact that William had to face repercussions at all (as is not always the case) can be attributed to the fact that John Irving tends to deal with very feminist themes and doesn't let men off easy in his novels, even if in "real life" that may be the case.
‎5)We all have a Great Omi from our childhood. What was your's?
We all have a Great Omi? Do we? I don't really know right off what or who my Great Omi would be.
Sorry to disappoint!
‎6)Any thoughts on Charlie Snow's tattoo?
It's kind of puzzling. That was something that struck me while reading and I couldn't quite decide on the meaning of the tattoo nor how it relates to the theme of the novel. If I had to say I would say it connects back into the theme of continual longing and a search for a sort of "home" but I will have to wait and see.
‎7)Why does everyone think they can see Jack's future in his eyes? Since this is Jack's perspective is that just what he feels? What does this mean!?
I think "You must be alive." will be really important.
Well, it's not just his eyes. It's his face. "the contours of his face." I think, in a way it is just how Jack feels when he is being looked on, but also that this comes from something, and has some value outside of a sort of paranoid feeling. And I do agree that "You must be alive" will be of importance. I don't know if this will be this novel's "Keep passing the open windows" or "Kings of Maine, Princes of New England" but then again, who is to say?